that my MiL sent me a round-robin email that's sexist?

[NonnoMum]

OK - so my MiL (and SiL) sometimes send me round-robin emails, you know the type, they seem to originate in the US (because they always refer to getting your "purse" nicked, not your handbag etc) which I generally just take a quick look at and then delete. (Of course, any family stuff, photos etc, I usually make a reply to). As you can tell, I'm not a fan of those round-robin emails but, no harm etc (apart form all the crappy viruses they can generate).
BUT, the other day, my MiL sent one with a 'joke' on, that I just skim-read, but now thinking about it, is a bit weird. It was something about having a woman having a knob for a facelift that you wind tighter - and i think the punchline referred to what about the goatee (i.e everything have been wound so tight that now the woman has her pubic region for a chin or something).
How should I deal with this at the next family get-together? "Hello there, kids are fine, thanks, and the pubic hair goatee joke was just inspired! Cup of tea?"

You could just ignore it, it's a crappy chain email. She probably forgot about it as soon as she hit send. [shrugs]

Hello Mil, thought I'd let you know someone is using your e-mail account to send me repulsive jokes.

Chill ignore and delete end of

It is in poor taste but I don't really see why it's sexist.

Oooh, I hate all these.

Even worse than jokes are the ones about friendship that you are supposed to send on to 10 amazing women you know. Puke.

Even worse than that are all the bollocks urban myths trying to scare you that there's a man in your local Asda car park trying to drug women with perfume samples so's he can have his wicked way with them.

One thing I have said to some of my friends who are the worst offenders is that you are worried about computer viruses so please not to include you any more.

Just delete and ignore.

me too parakeet, those "send this on to 10 amazing women, blah blah blah....or you are a heartless cow" kind of ones really get me angry. I make a point of ignoring all such emails / texts etc.

Why is that racist?

Sorry - sexist! - must read more carefully before posting!

think you read way too much into inane email

I hate them, MIL used to send them when she first got her computer but has thankfully calmed down a bit. I did send a request to my niece not to send me any more "send this to 10 people or you die" type round robins.

Maybe - but my own mother would pass on such sexist drivel.
Feels like comedy has had a throw back to the 70s...

I sent an email to my sister/neice/friend asking them stop sending chain emails.

It worked. Try it.

Either that, or just delete without reading.

It is always the same two or three friends who send these vile emails (the ones like the friendship ones you must send on or a) you're not a true friend or b) you will have bad luck) - yuck!!!!. I usually delete them without even looking, they reminfd me of the old chail letters at school - I used to just bim those too. They actually infuriate me and have once or twice replied to said friend saying I think they are stupid and find them offensive. The worst was the Jamie Bulger email I got from quite a few friends, going into detail about the torture and injuries he rec - these really made me angry. Then there was the cancer one I received just after nursing and watching my mother die from cancer - again I was not amused at my 'friends' sensitivity.

Are you being unreasonable that your MIL sent you a sexist letter?

Don't really see how her sending a letter could be you being unreasonable...

I get about 60 of these emails a week from my FIL. About 50% are racist or sexist. It drives me mad, I don't know how to tell him to stop, because whenever he calls, he asks 'did you get the funnys I sent you' ho ho ho. He's quite new to technology and I think he's thrilled to be sending so many emails. It really alters my opinion of him though when I read the dozen's of 'send the immigrants home' emails every week.

Alternatively you could find a sense of humour.... just a thought.

Nice and patronising. I'd wonder at the sense of humour of someone who found all the so called "funnies" funny. Presumably the same folk who describe themselves as having a GSOH on a dating website, and who I'd avoid.
I don't mind occasional jolk emails that someone has chosen for me, but hate the round robin email this on to 20 folk I know regardless of their preferences style of circulating email jolks.

I ignore this shit and have blocked messages from everyone who ignores my initial and polite response - "I'm sorry but I'd rather not get circular emails because it clogs up my mailbox and isn't always safe to open". I don't care WHO gets blocked, friends or family. It teaches them to take me off their sodding list of victims.

Why is it relevant that your MIL has sent you this? Or am I missing something?

This is the only chain letter email that I think should be forwarded:

"Hello, my name is Billy and I suffer from guilt for not forwarding 50 billion f**ing chain letters sent to me by people who actually believe, if you send them on, a poor six-year-old girl in Scotland with a breast on her forehead will be able to raise enough money to have it removed before her redneck parents sell her to a travelling freak show.

And, do you honestly believe that Bill Gates is going to give $1000 to you, and everyone to whom you send 'his' email?

How stupid are we?

Ooooh, looky here! If I scroll down this page and make a wish, I'll get laid by a model I just happen to run into the next day!

What a bunch of bullshit.

Maybe the evil chain letter leprechauns will come into my house and sodomise me in my sleep for not continuing a chain letter that was started by St Peter in 5AD and brought to this country by midget pilgrim stowaways on the Endeavour.

F**k 'em!!

If you're going to forward something, at least send me something mildly amusing.

I've seen all the 'send this to 10 of your closest friends, and this poor, wretched excuse for a human being will somehow receive a nickel from some omniscient being' forwards about 90 times.... I don't f**ing care.

Show a little intelligence and think about what you're actually contributing to by sending out these forwards. Chances are, it's our own unpopularity.

The point being?

If you get some chain letter that's threatening to leave you shagless or luckless for the rest of your life, delete it.

If it's funny, send it on.

Don't piss people off by making them feel guilty about a leper in Botswana with no teeth who has been tied to the arse of a dead elephant for 27 years and whose only salvation is the 5 cents per letter he'll receive if you forward this email.

Now forward this to everyone you know. Otherwise, tomorrow morning your underwear will turn carnivorous and will consume your genitals.

Have a nice day.

Billy Connolly"

Well, I don't find it funny, and I religiously don't forward on joke emails, but she clearly sniggered and thought it worthy of sending on.

I dunno - it's hardly sexist (a woman just happens to the the butt of the joke), and not that big a deal, I wouldn't have thought.

Just delete it and go about your day.

ffs..just roll your eyes and delete!it's just a crap internet joke.hardly worth mulling over days later and making an issue of next time you meet is it?!!!